Clothes-line support.



C. KOFFER.

CLOTHES LINE SUPPORT. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 16. 1914.

Patented May 25 WITNESSES THE NORRIS PETERS 60., PHOTD-LITHQ, WASHINGTON, D C.

CHARLES KOFFER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOTHES-LINE SUPPORT.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 25, 1915.

Application filed September 16, 1914. Serial No. 862,022.

T all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, CHARLES Kornnr, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Clothes-Line Support, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in clothes line supports, and has for an object to provide an improved construction for use in clothes lines found associated with compartment houses, tenement houses and the like.

Another object in view is to provide an improved construction of clothes line support designed to be pivotally connected to the outside part of the window frame and arranged to swing into the room through the window or to position outside of the window without changing the tension on the clothes line connected therewith.

A further object in view is to provide a swinging loosely mounted arm which is designed to be associated with the usual hook on a house and a clothes line post in the yard so as to properly hold the clothesline connected at one end with the post, the same being formed with hooks for holding the line in position when the arm extends through the window into the house, and with other hooks for holding the line in position and taut when the arm is positioned without the window.

In the accompanying drawings-Figure 1 is a fragmentary view of a window with an embodiment of the invention applied thereto, the same being shown in side elevation; Fig. 2 is a fragmentary sectional view approximately on line 22 of Fig. 1, the same being shown on an enlar ed scale; Fig. 8 is a top plan view of the arm shown in Fig. 1 associated with part of a window and ar ranged exteriorly thereof; Fig. 4 is an end view of a cap hook arrangement connected to one end of the arm shown in Fig. 1, the same being an end elevation thereof as indicated by the arrow in Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is a front view of a supporting bolt structure for the arm shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 6 is a section through Fig. 5 on line 66.

Referring to the accompanying drawings by numerals, 1 indicates a window frame of any desired kind and 2 a clothes line post arranged in the yard at any desired distance from the window frame 1. est 2 is pro- 1 vided with a hook or eyelet 3 ior receiving a pulley a as shown in Fl 1 so that the line 5 found on pulley 4i and pulley 6 may be properly supported, pulley 6 being engaged with hook 7. Hook 7 is formed integral with or rigidly secured to cap 8, which cap is slipped over the end of arm 9 or secured thereto in any desired manner. Cap 8 is also provided with a hook 10 for hooking over the top line 11 when the arm 9 is moved to a posit-ion without the window as shown in Fig. 3.

Connected with the window frame 1 is a hook 12 which may be of any desired type over which the eyelet 13 is passed as shown in Fig. 3. The eyelet 13 is provided with an extension 14 preferably threaded so as to be screwed into arm 9, and is also provided with a hook 15 over which the upper line 11 is continually arranged as shown in Fig. 1, and over which the lower line 16 is placed immediately previous to swinging the arm 9 outwardly from the position shown in Fig. 1 to the position shown in Fig. 3.

The arm 9 may be made from any desired material, preferably a good quality of wood, so that the same will not be of any appreciable weight and yet will be sufficiently long for extending into the room several feet.

When it is desired to hook clothes on the line 5 the parts are arranged as shown in Fig. 1 with the arm supporting structure 17 engaging the arm 9 for holding the same in asubstantially horizontal position. The clothes are secured to the lower line 16 in any desired manner and the lower line is fed out in the usual manner of a pulley line. After all the clothes have been hooked upon the line the lower line 16 is hooked over the hook 15 as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1 and then the arm supporting structure 17 is operated for releasing arm 9, after which arm 9 is swung through the window to the position shown in Fig. 3. The window may then be closed or left open as preferred, as the clothes line, clothes and support are all arranged exteriorlv of the window.

The arm supporting structure 17 is provided with a base 18 having turned-over members 19 and 20 forming guideways with the hinge member 21 provided with apertures through which securing means may be passed. A sliding plate 22 is slidingly mounted in the guideways 19 and 20, and

is formed with substantially tubular pressedout portions or beads 28 and 24 for accommodating the rods 25 and 26. A set screw 27 is threaded into plate 22, and is designed to press against body 18 so as to hold plate 22 in any desired position, whereby rods or bars 25 and 26 may be adjusted toward and from the edge of the window. This is very desirable as windows are made in different shapes and sizes, and by havingan adjustable arrangement of this kind securing means may be passed through the apertures in hinge 21, and the rods or bars 25 and 26 projected to any desired position. It will be noticed from Fig. 5 that the rods 25 and 26 are turned over or bent for forming stops or hook members 29 and 30 designed to overlap the arm 9 as shown in Fig. 1. Ihe ends of the bars 24: and 25 opposite stops 29 and 30 are formed with cranks 31 and 32,

which cranks are bent at their extreme ends for presenting eyelets. Arranged to loosely engage the eyelets on cranks 31 and 32 is a connecting link 33 whereby both of the bars 25 and 26 are rotated simultaneously for being moved to the position shown in Fig. 1 and therefrom.

What I claim is- 1. In a device of the character described, the combination with a post, a hook on a window frame and a clothes line pulley structure associated therewith, of an arm pivotally connected with said hook, said arm being formed with a hook member for receiving one of the pulleys of said clothes line and pulley structure, and a retaining hookadapted to overlap said clothes line when the arm is in an inoperative position.

2. In a clothes line support, a supporting arm for a clothes line adapted to be extended into the room, said supporting arm being pivotally connected to a window frame exteriorly of the window, means for normally holding said arm substantially in a horizontal position and extending through the window into the room, means for supporting one end of the clothesline pulley structure on the inner end of said arm, a hook arranged on the outer end of said arm adapted to engage the upper section of said clothes line when clothes are being placed on the line and to engage both sections of the line when said arm is swung out of the window, and means arranged on the end of said arm overlappingsaid clothes line when said arm is moved without the window, whereby said arm is held substantially parallel with the clothes line and thereby the clothes line is held taut. v c

3. In a clothes line support of the class described, an arm for supporting a clothes line pulley structure, said arm having a loop and hook at one end interlocking with the clothes line structure, and a supporting hook on the window frame, and a pair of hooks at the opposite end, one of which supports the end of said clothes line support and the other of which is adapted to overlap the line of said clothes line structure when the arm is swung to a position without said window, and means connected with said window for holding said arm substantially horizontal when extending through the window.

1. Inaclothes line support of the character described, an arm adapted to swing to a position within the window and to a position without the window, a supporting structure secured to the window adapted to engage said arm when extending through the window into the room, said supporting structure comprising a stationary base formed with guideways, a sliding plate slidingly mounted in said guideways, said sliding plate being formed with beads, means for clamping said sliding plate in any'desired position on said stationary plate, a bar extending through each of said beads, each of said bars being formed with hooked ends overlapping said arm when in one position, and means connecting said bars so as to properly rotate said bars simultaneously for turning said hooked ends to a position out of engagement with said arm when said arm is to be moved to a position without said window.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES KOFFER. Witnesses A. L. KITOHIN, PHILIP D. ROLLHAUS.

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